Bill Text: HI SB3229 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Geothermal Royalties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2022-06-27 - Notice of intent to veto (Gov. Msg. No. 1216) [SB3229 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB3229-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO GEOTHERMAL ROYALTIES.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 182, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding two new sections to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§182- University innovation and commercialization
initiative special fund; geothermal royalties. (a)
There shall be deposited into the university
innovation and commercialization initiative special fund established by section
304A-1963:
(1) Any excess of geothermal royalties annually distributed to the State pursuant to section 182‑18(a);
(2) Any excess of geothermal royalties annually distributed to the county in which mining operations covered under a state geothermal resource mining lease are situated pursuant to section 182-7(c); and
(3) The remainder of all royalties received by
the State annually from geothermal resources; provided that royalties received
by the State shall not be from geothermal resources that are located on lands
under the jurisdiction of the department of Hawaiian home lands.
(b) The royalties in the university innovation and
commercialization initiative special fund shall be used by the Hawaii institute
of geophysics and planetology at the University of Hawaii to further the
discovery and development of geothermal resources.
§182-
Annual report to legislature. No
later than twenty days before the convening of each regular session, the board,
each county in which mining operations covered under a state geothermal resource
mining lease are situated, and the Hawaii institute of geophysics and
planetology at the University of Hawaii shall submit an annual report to the legislature
regarding the use of the distributed geothermal royalties."
SECTION 2. Section 182-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
"(c) The payments to the State as fixed by the board shall be specified; provided that:
(1) In the case of bauxite, bauxitic clay, gibbsite, diaspore, boehmite, and all ores of aluminum, the amount of royalties for each long dry ton of ore as beneficiated shall not be less than twenty-five cents or the equivalent of the price of one pound of virgin pig aluminum, whichever is higher, nor shall it exceed the equivalent of the price of three pounds of virgin pig aluminum;
(2) The rate of royalty for ore processed into aluminous oxide in the State shall be set at eighty per cent of the rate of royalty for ore not processed to aluminous oxide in the State; and
(3) The royalty shall be fixed at a rate that will tend to encourage the establishment and continuation of the mining industry in the State.
The prices of virgin pig aluminum for the purpose of determining the royalties under this section shall be the basic price on the mainland United States market for virgin pig, not refined, f.o.b. factory. The royalties shall be in lieu of any severance or other similar tax on the extracting, producing, winning, beneficiating, handling, storing, treating, or transporting of the mineral or any product into which it may be processed in the State, and shall not be subject to reopening or renegotiating for and during the first twenty years of the lease term.
If the lessee desires to mine other minerals, the lessee, before mining the minerals, shall notify the board in writing, and the board and the lessee shall negotiate and fix the royalties for the minerals.
SECTION 3. Section 182-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a)
The board shall fix the payment of royalties to the State for the
utilization of geothermal resources at a rate [which] that will
encourage the initial and continued production of such resources[.]; provided
that the royalties distributed annually to the State shall not exceed $1,000,000. With respect to all geothermal mining leases
previously issued or to be issued, where the board determines that it is necessary
to encourage the initial or continued production of geothermal resources, the
board shall have the authority to waive royalty payments to the State for any
fixed period of time up to but not exceeding eight years."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Geothermal Resources; Royalties; University Innovation and Commercialization Initiative Special Fund; Department of Land and Natural Resources; University of Hawaii; Counties; Reports
Description:
Caps the amount of royalties from geothermal resources that are to be paid to the State and to the county in which the geothermal resources are located. Deposits royalties into the university innovation and commercialization initiative special fund, to be expended by the Hawaii institute of geophysics and planetology, to further the discovery and development of geothermal resources. Requires the entities that received geothermal royalties to submit an annual report to the legislature. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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